Lambert on TalkSport

[ciggiesnbeer]

I think he would be smarter to keep his head down until we are safe.

[eamonn]

Interesting that he's spinning it to suggest if he'd had a fully fit Benteke we'd have been fine. Was Benteke that much fitter when he started scoring for Sherwood than the last couple of months under Lambert?

The two league goals he scored this season with Lambert in charge, at Palace and at home to ManUre were comepletely of the Beast's own making which suggests he would have scored a hatful more during that period had we been better set-up to supply him like we are now.

[oldham_villa]

What puzzled me right from Lambert's first game was the way the defence passed the ball square and without urgency.....this was within injury time whilst losing against West Ham.

Just tippy crappy get no where fast football. Complete bollocks

I share Leighton's sentiments

[Toronto Villa]

Lambert will get another job for sure. You wonder though if he needs to do a McLaren and work abroad for a year or two.

One of the smaller German clubs might suit him.

And giving interviews with a German accent wearing lederhosen.

[edgysatsuma89]

Interesting that he's spinning it to suggest if he'd had a fully fit Benteke we'd have been fine. Was Benteke that much fitter when he started scoring for Sherwood than the last couple of months under Lambert?

The two league goals he scored this season with Lambert in charge, at Palace and at home to ManUre were comepletely of the Beast's own making which suggests he would have scored a hatful more during that period had we been better set-up to supply him like we are now.

Arse and covering come to mind.

[pauliewalnuts]

I think the job turned out to be too big for him.

I also think he'd known nothing but success before coming here, and when things got tricky he didn't know what to do.

I also wonder how much the almost total lack of backroom staff other than that mentalist Keane was actually down to him.

I wish him no ill and hope he gets another job soon, but I've been watching us for about 40 years now and this season was the worst football I've ever seen from a villa team

Absolutely no doubt we'd have been relegated had we stuck with him.

[mike]

I sometimes wonder what Westley's view on things would be now. Probably 'if Benteke had been fit when Paul was in charge...'

[Lastfootstamper]

Interesting that he's spinning it to suggest if he'd had a fully fit Benteke we'd have been fine. Was Benteke that much fitter when he started scoring for Sherwood than the last couple of months under Lambert?

The two league goals he scored this season with Lambert in charge, at Palace and at home to ManUre were comepletely of the Beast's own making which suggests he would have scored a hatful more during that period had we been better set-up to supply him like we are now.

Arse and covering come to mind.

Indeed. I don't recall thinking, whilst watching the big fella frustratedly hanging around the centre circle for weeks on end, that the reason he wasn't banging them in for fun was his fitness. If he truly believes that, along with those post-match "we were excellent" lines he repeatedly trotted out, it only confirms my long-held belief that eventually all Villa managers go mental.

[myf]

The mad idea of Guzan bowling it out to the fullbacks and going to Germany and coming back with a brand new tactic of keeping the ball but not creating any chances showed that he'd lost it.

It was truly desperate

[Toronto Villa]

For me it was the fact that he had no staff to speak of and he was trying to do everything himself proved that he was completely out of his depth. He ran Aston Villa like Colchester where maybe having 2 coaches and bloke with a bucket and sponge was fine. The players must have come to work every day thinking what fucking mess they were going to find the place in. By the end Lambert looked like an unshaven tramp. He probably didn't sleep and got a kip in now and again by the bins. He'd clearly lose the plot.

[class-of-82]

I actually stuck up for him for a time on here due to the task he was given.
It was a bit like telling your wife or gf that " yea your hair looks really nice or that dress looks lovely on you "
But sooner or later you got a bite the bullett and tell the truth and lambert was appalling

[silhillvilla]

He has some nerve to rear his head above the parapet while we are still not safe. I cannot forgive the man for the God awful shite he dished up, the crap record after record he didn't just break he absolutely mullered. That game at WBA this season where Guzan was taking goal kicks backwards to cissoko still boils my piss. Wanker.

[Legion]

I wish I knew how to change my username at this point!

Anyway I think he will be very much employable still. Yes the footy was shite and we may have got relegated this season, but for a relatively small spend he kept us in the PL for 2 seasons. Owners of clubs like that, they don't care about style or entertainment (see FTA under Pullis), just the Sky money.

Either donate to gain GM status or ask me very, very nicely indeed.

[PeterWithesShin]

I'll change your name for a cup final ticket. Which seems fair.

[olaftab]

You are a truly generous man PWS!